Lecture/Discussion

Our guest speaker Peg Achterman stated that people are willing to get breaking news quicker even if it is a rumor or unverified than to get it later and verified as accurate and truthful. What are the ethics of posting news as factual if you have not gone through the due dilligence of fact checking? Why might people post without checking?

To get factual, relevant news which is better: one-to-one communication or one-to-many? Why?

At what point should professional journalists and news broadcasters be given sole reporting authority for a story?

How is it that the United States is so far behind the curve in SMS technology use?